Thursday, October 18, 2007
Found out a few days ago that someone actually uploaded Maison Ikkoku on crunchyroll. It's actually adapted from a Japanese comic and that was the the one and only set of comics I've ever read in my entire life so far and in Chinese too! So you can guess how interesting the story is since I'm so "anti" towards reading Chinese words. :)
After that I discovered they actually did a drama on that too which was 2007 version. The movie was, well.. 1 or 2 decades old.. hahaha.. Kind of funny.
In a sense.
Just came back from bringing a bunch of potentially gifted kids to the test centre to let the true gems be "discovered" through more exams. This brought back memories when I was in primary school and the gifted programme actually existed way back then. Unfortunately, I didn't have the honour of being gifted from birth or something although I sure was good in other aspects in primary school like "zero-point", running and doing craftwork. Yet, unfortunately (once again) I have lost my "zero-point" talent. I suspect I can jump only over a puddle or something now to avoid getting my shoes wet.
I don't see students playing "zero-point" these days. Maybe they find it too LC. Or maybe children these days just can't jump high enough. Only their IQ have become higher. I used to get my dad to bring back packets of rubberband from his office so that I could make a thick and long-lasting "zero-point" rope which would sort of be like an accessory during recess. How on earth did we survive with only 20 min of recess in the past? Through zero-point, we made new friends from other classes and also discovered that short people could actually jump high too! :)
In retrospect, everything seemed so relaxing and we were so carefree. Things just seem to come easily to me when I was a child to the extent that I might have taken things for granted.
But now, when I'm typing this, I'm starting to recall how "evil" some kids can be. Haha.. stealing.. lying.. running around.. being someone's pet dog (yes, sounds shocking now but there were a few boys who were willing to do that for fun or maybe they thought it was cute "-_-). Colour pencils could go missing, your ruler or eraser could just disappear suddenly and so often that in the end, we wldn't even bother to tell our teachers. Hahah...
A teacher, whom I don't know if she's still alive coz she was really old then even called one of the boys "small ikan bilis", "skinny monkey" and "goon du". It's damn funny if you're not at the receiving end but even up till this day, these nicknames still tickle me. Haha... Gone are the days when teachers can do such things blatantly and get away with it. Calling names is a no- no. Corporate punishment.. that's even worst. Not even allowed to let a child stand outside the classroom or you might find yourself in deep shit. Haahaa..
That was a really really fun period. Miss those days and miss the primary school friends I have back then.
Things just aren't the same even during meetups now :(Labels: Nostalgia
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